Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.

Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors. Everyone knows this.

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.